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  1. 2 hours ago, Goodman said:

    Add "serving" and that is the story of Elliott's career. 

    It's only been last three, four years serving has been bad.

    Up til 2016, Texas had a pretty good ace to errors ratio and most of the serves weren't lollipops. The only bad regular server I can remember would have been Dalton.

  2. Another week and another doubles runner up for Anna (this time with an OU partner)! 😊

    Both twins are also in their singles finals tomorrow. Bianca should have a new career high ranking regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's final.

  3. ITA Kickoff draft happened with Florida State, Vanderbilt, and Indiana coming to Austin. A bit surprised that Texas was not picked early. With the loss of four starters, I'd have thought that teams would want to test the freshmen. Even though the class is highly recruited, transition to the college game can be tough.

    Teams that were picked early were Tennessee and Mississippi State.

    Teams that others avoided were Baylor and UNC.

  4. Summer updates-

    Labrana is in Mexico. So-so results so far in singles (has played three tournies). Just made the doubles finals so will be taking home some hardware. Will be facing against a Mexican team consisting of this year's Vandy Number 1 and Baylor Number 2 in the finals.

    Turatis are in the entry list for the later part of the month. Anna is signed up to play in Tunisia and Bianca will play a 25k in Italy.

    Also ITA kickoff weekend draft happened. Texas was the last site to fill up. LSU, Tech, and Iowa. Tech has some pretty good recruits coming in and I think they can beat LSU.

    Teams really picked on Kansas as being the 'weak link.' Understandable as they're losing four of their starting six.

  5. https://247sports.com/college/texas/LongFormArticle/Texas-Longhorns-tennis-national-champions-Michael-Center-FBI-investigation-Lori-Laughlin-Felicity-Huffman-132366282/#132366282_3

    A bit more inside information of what the tennis program has been going through the last 5 years. Still a bit incomplete as it glosses over the fact that the women's team had 3 coaches in the span of three years (actually 4 if we include the interim coach Klaic)

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  6. 7 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Berque certainly held the team together this year. 

    1) Just curious, what's the reason he left Michigan??

    2) Folks that really follow Longhorns tennis, what do you think about him as the new Head Coach?

    He got fired from Michigan for lack of improved results. Kind of think he was like a Connie...would easily qualify for the NCAAs every year but no deep runs, no conference titles, and saw another school totally dominate the conference (to be fair Michigan was really poor before he was hired there)

    I feel that he should be fine. Presumably, he already has a working relationship to the loaded blue chip class next year. Also has another blue chip recruit for the class of 2020. Let's see if he can find another international player like Norrie to sign over these next few years.

    Two of his Michigan players are still on the pro circuit.

  7. Petra lost 3 and 4 to Vandy's #1. Overall, I think it was a pretty good season for her. Won the Freeman tournament, conference line champion, got her first individual bid to NCAAs and even won her first round match, etc. Also was limited by being in a boot through the indoor part of the season.

  8. Oh wow in a long 2 hours match and the last match on court, Bianca wins on a point penalty after her opponent smacks a ball out of frustration well outside of the grounds- she was understandably mad and pure exhausted with the way Bianca was grinding (it's all good, they hugged at the net)

    Perfect record on the day for the trio

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  9. 2 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Individuals underway. Ito won, Harry lost, and Sigsgaard Hasn't played.  Looks like all the Wake Forest players withdrew from individuals 🤔 

    Sigs actually lost something like 2 and 3 to an Ag

  10. 12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    How do you recruit in this sport, with so many international players?  Travel the world?  Hit up junior tournaments?  Talk with trainers and coaches?

    Yep for a lot of the big Division I schools, coaches will travel quite extensively to junior tournaments- all the Grand Slams, Eddie Herr, Orange Bowl, USTA national events, Junior European championships, etc. These trips are actually in the recruiting budget. It's also important to build up a network of contacts who can recommend junior players who can't afford to play international tournaments. This is why coaches who are from abroad will have a leg up recruiting in their home countries. Ever wonder how Joffe (a former South African national coach) was able to get Poluta so quickly after he was hired so late? Also, Christian mentioned on how important that Soren had played at UT before.

    For the smaller schools, coaches use recruiting services to scout players. There's a whole section of YouTube with endless amounts of internationals showing clips of their games.

  11. 5 hours ago, Js1 said:

    That made me curious to go back and look:

    2009 - all but one player from Texas/California (Desiree Williams from Arizona)
    2010 - everyone Texas/California
    2011 - Texas/California
    2012 - Texas/California
    2013 - all but one player from Texas/California (Taylor King from Florida)
    2014 - all but 2 players from Texas/California (King and Lauren Slatten from Ohio but played freshman/sophomore ball in Texas)
    2015 - all but 2 players from Texas/California (King and Slatten)
    2016 - all but one player from Texas/California (Reagan Hathaway from Kansas)
    2017 - all but one player from Texas/California (Hathaway)
    2018 - all but 2 players from Texas/California (Hathaway and MK Tedder from Alabama)
    2019 - all of Connie's recruits from Texas/California except Hathaway and Tedder;  Espinosa was a late Mike White add after his hire (Colorado)

    She was a lazy bitch of a recruiter.  Grab the 2nd-tier Texas recruits after Evans, Gasso, Torina, Murphy and Walton snatched up the 1st tier and used her CSF connections to get some California girls.  Rarely if ever deviated from these 2 states. 

    Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't King also a walk-on? I thought she was on some kind of an ROTC scholarship. 

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